Datamonitor's Water Utilities: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the water utilities industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 5 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

Private companies are moving aggressively to take over the management of water utilities in Russia and other Eastern European countries, as well as throughout Asia.

Despite above-inflation rises, water prices in the US are amongst the lowest in the developed world, with an average price of approximately $0.6 per cubic meter compared to $2.2 in Germany.

Companies within the European industry are facing increasing costs in terms of environmental compliance to new EU directives.

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Definition

The water utilities industry consists of all water that is collected, treated and distributed to end-users. The industry is valued using average annual end-user prices alongside consumption volumes. All currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2004 annual average exchange rates.